Similar to Palakodety et al. (2020) [1]}, the authors modeled the hope speech detection task as a binary classification task where each YouTube comment was identified as Hope or Not Hope. The HopeEDI corpus is a topic-based dataset consisting of the comments of all YouTube videos shared under specific domains such as STEM, LGBTQ individuals, racial minorities, or people with disabilities [2]}. The detailed statistics of the HopeEDI corpus are presented in Table  REFIn their final version of the corpus, they did not mention the label distribution on the test set.
